Without the historical record we are condemned to repeat the failings of our ancestors keep the windows and embrace our past, so that it may save as a reminder for all of us
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Greg Cooper
8 years ago
Stop Destroying history and art! We are better than this!
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Robert W. Parker
9 years ago
They must not be Christian. Jackson Educated his Slaves/Children at Penalty of Law. Lee freed his Slaves 10 years before the war.
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Gerald de Folan KM
9 years ago
We have gone from a society looking for common ground and reconciliation to a society bent on the vilification and obliteration of the memory of those who in the distant past found themselves on the loosing side of history..Who is next ? Washington, Lincoln. Roosevelt, (one or both) Wilson,Truman, Johnson ?
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Mark Andrew Cook
9 years ago
As I posted on FB we are lifelong Episcopalians. We feel that the destruction of these historic icons are morally and ethically equivalent to the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas by Taliban extremists. Woodrow Wilson was said to be a notorious segregationist: are they going to dig him up too and destroy his crypt...which is a few bays down?...
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PAMELA lampron
10 years ago
100% agree. Save the stainglass
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ELLIS BURDEN
10 years ago
Save the windows!
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Paul hatfield
10 years ago
This is not the same situation as the flag flying over the state capitol of SC. This is a historical display. It is no different than the cross of St George depictef in countless English churches in one form or another. I am sure some groups would take it as an affront because of the Crusades or the long rule of the British empire. But is is part of our fabric. It is easy to take offense with any symbol. Are we going to take down everything because some are thin-skinned?
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Keep the beautiful windows.
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James Brooks
10 years ago
Please leave the windows alone. We share a past that is bleak and based on rebellion but these were godly men.
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Henry Williams
10 years ago
Our history our ancestry.
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Steven Moore
10 years ago
Please save our history
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Steven Hayes
10 years ago
We are the true Americans of this country,so why are we the most hated?
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Michael Upchurch
10 years ago
Keep the stained glass windows
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Political correctness is cultural Marxism!
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Jack Hill
10 years ago
The windows show that I as a descendent of multiple Confederate Soldiers am still welcome in this Church and the Nations Capital.
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Arthur Winans
10 years ago
keep the stain glass windows in place
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Dixie Coble
10 years ago
Please do not remove these windows it's our history our life.
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W. Averell H. Bauder
10 years ago
As an Episcopalian I am ashamed and embarrassed at the Dean's call for the removal of these windows. So much for a church that is broad enough to accept all under its roof. We need to confront our history and look the complete picture, not simply a flag. At his death, Robert E. Lee was the Sr. Warden of his Church in Lexington and had his fatal stroke after a 5 hour Vestry meeting. Let us consider the man's whole career of military service and service to God before we remove windows in a knee-jerk reaction. While their service to the Confederacy may be what brought Lee and jackson to the forefront of American History, it is their devotion to God that honors them in stained glass in a cathedral.
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David Roy Harrison
10 years ago
Aren't you are there to teach tolerance, and forgiveness?
Without the historical record we are condemned to repeat the failings of our ancestors keep the windows and embrace our past, so that it may save as a reminder for all of us
Stop Destroying history and art! We are better than this!
They must not be Christian. Jackson Educated his Slaves/Children at Penalty of Law. Lee freed his Slaves 10 years before the war.
We have gone from a society looking for common ground and reconciliation to a society bent on the vilification and obliteration of the memory of those who in the distant past found themselves on the loosing side of history..Who is next ? Washington, Lincoln. Roosevelt, (one or both) Wilson,Truman, Johnson ?
As I posted on FB we are lifelong Episcopalians. We feel that the destruction of these historic icons are morally and ethically equivalent to the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas by Taliban extremists. Woodrow Wilson was said to be a notorious segregationist: are they going to dig him up too and destroy his crypt...which is a few bays down?...
100% agree. Save the stainglass
Save the windows!
This is not the same situation as the flag flying over the state capitol of SC. This is a historical display. It is no different than the cross of St George depictef in countless English churches in one form or another. I am sure some groups would take it as an affront because of the Crusades or the long rule of the British empire. But is is part of our fabric. It is easy to take offense with any symbol. Are we going to take down everything because some are thin-skinned?
Keep the beautiful windows.
Please leave the windows alone. We share a past that is bleak and based on rebellion but these were godly men.
Our history our ancestry.
Please save our history
We are the true Americans of this country,so why are we the most hated?
Keep the stained glass windows
Political correctness is cultural Marxism!
The windows show that I as a descendent of multiple Confederate Soldiers am still welcome in this Church and the Nations Capital.
keep the stain glass windows in place
Please do not remove these windows it's our history our life.
As an Episcopalian I am ashamed and embarrassed at the Dean's call for the removal of these windows. So much for a church that is broad enough to accept all under its roof. We need to confront our history and look the complete picture, not simply a flag. At his death, Robert E. Lee was the Sr. Warden of his Church in Lexington and had his fatal stroke after a 5 hour Vestry meeting. Let us consider the man's whole career of military service and service to God before we remove windows in a knee-jerk reaction. While their service to the Confederacy may be what brought Lee and jackson to the forefront of American History, it is their devotion to God that honors them in stained glass in a cathedral.
Aren't you are there to teach tolerance, and forgiveness?